My room mate has just got engaged but she hasn’t yet met her fiance’s relatives. She has just met her fiance’s dad and mom. Her fiance’s elder brother is getting married on October 1st. It is in this wedding that she would get to meet her fiance’s relatives for the first time.
Ever since the wedding date for her brother-in-law has been fixed, she has been on a shopping spree. Shopping for the perfect attire, perfect shoes, perfect accessories. When I get back home from office, she pulls out her bags to show her shopping and as she shows them she would have very anxious questions like –
“hey, would this suit me?”
“do you think they would like this?”
“would I look good in this”
“ please tell me the truth na”
She would ask these questions again and again. Its only after she’s completely sure that something would be good on her, does she decide to go ahead with an outfit. I’ve seen her give very careful attention down to the minutest detail. She has started going out for morning walks so that she looks good for the wedding. When I asked her why she was spending so much money and time over this, she said that she wanted to look her best to make her fiancé proud.
Every day as I watch her get nervous and then excited at times, I can see the love she has for her fiancé show up in almost everything she does.
As I watch her I often think – Do I take such care and do I go about things like this girl, with the same intensity of desire, of making my creator proud?
Do I have this thought running in my head all day – Am I making my creator proud?
Am I willing to sacrifice my own plans, desires, choices, wishes……. to make my creator proud?
Do I resist grumbling and complaining and do I use my words carefully, to build up and to encourage?
Do I stop focusing on the negative things around and choose to be grateful and joyful over the positive things?
Do I spend enough time reading His word and talking to him and praying to him?
Matthew 5:16:16Let your light so shine before men that they may see your [a]moral excellence and your praiseworthy, noble, and good deeds and [b]recognize and honor and praise and glorify your Father Who is in heaven.
Ever since the wedding date for her brother-in-law has been fixed, she has been on a shopping spree. Shopping for the perfect attire, perfect shoes, perfect accessories. When I get back home from office, she pulls out her bags to show her shopping and as she shows them she would have very anxious questions like –
“hey, would this suit me?”
“do you think they would like this?”
“would I look good in this”
“ please tell me the truth na”
She would ask these questions again and again. Its only after she’s completely sure that something would be good on her, does she decide to go ahead with an outfit. I’ve seen her give very careful attention down to the minutest detail. She has started going out for morning walks so that she looks good for the wedding. When I asked her why she was spending so much money and time over this, she said that she wanted to look her best to make her fiancé proud.
Every day as I watch her get nervous and then excited at times, I can see the love she has for her fiancé show up in almost everything she does.
As I watch her I often think – Do I take such care and do I go about things like this girl, with the same intensity of desire, of making my creator proud?
Do I have this thought running in my head all day – Am I making my creator proud?
Am I willing to sacrifice my own plans, desires, choices, wishes……. to make my creator proud?
Do I resist grumbling and complaining and do I use my words carefully, to build up and to encourage?
Do I stop focusing on the negative things around and choose to be grateful and joyful over the positive things?
Do I spend enough time reading His word and talking to him and praying to him?
Matthew 5:16:16Let your light so shine before men that they may see your [a]moral excellence and your praiseworthy, noble, and good deeds and [b]recognize and honor and praise and glorify your Father Who is in heaven.
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